When Rutherford B. Hayes was the 19th president,of the U.S. he started the tradition of the Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn. The tradition has since carried over to Hayes' estate in Fremont, Ohio. Every year, kids show up at Spiegel Grove with hardboiled, colored ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Rutherford B. Hayes and the Easter Egg Roll connection
When Rutherford B. Hayes was the 19th president,of the U.S. he started the tradition of the Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn. The tradition has since carried over to Hayes' estate in Fremont, Ohio. Every year, kids show up at Spiegel Grove with hardboiled, colored ...Mardi Gras beads by the handfuls: What to do with them?
I've never been to Mardi Gras but I have beads. My first few came from a good college friend of mine who came back from New Orleans with a smile on his face and tales of forgetting that he's from a "nice" family. Not really, I do know he had a grand time and bought beads ...What places would you never go back to?
Most of us have a priority list of places we want to visit. But what about the places we would never visit again?
Whether you loved it or hated it, saw all of it or hardly anything, surely there are some places you don't ever want to go back to. You might have a solid ...
10 present ideas for your traveling pooch
If you're a person who likes to include your pets in your holiday festivities, here are 10 items that range from the useful to the over the top. I've looked around for those that might serve as ideas for taking your dog on the road. Perhaps, you've really wanted to have that ...Holiday readiness: A lesson in sparkling wine from around the globe and calamari
I was on the quest for a Christmas present for my dad when I came across this wonderful lesson on sparkling wines and cooking calamari from the Culinary Institute of America. Located in the Hudson Valley in Hyde Park, just outside of Poughkeepsie, New York, this is one of ...
Photo of the Day (12/13/07)
This is probably the worst quality photograph chosen for Photo of the Day, but the subject matter is one of the most interesting in my opinion. That's because the featured automobile is a steam engine pickup truck in North Korea. That's right folks, this car actually runs ...World's largest menorah may be in New York City, but there are others
Starting tomorrow, the first day of Hanukkah, the Jewish holiday that celebrates the triumph of the Maccabees over the Syrians and God's protection, the world's largest menorah will take center stage on the corner of 59th St. and 5th Ave. The menorah, a 32 feet-tall ...Polish fortune-telling holiday: Get a candle, a key and a right shoe
Tonight is St. Andrew's Eve where fortunes are told if you happen to be in Poland or around a large Polish community. These days, the fortunes are male or female friendly, but in the past were female fare. Also called Andrzejki, this holiday is thanks to St. Andrew (as in ...Danish holiday tradition: A walk through the woods and a drink of gløgg
Tonight we're going to a watch a Christmas parade in Gahanna, a town close to Columbus, with friends. My son has already hauled a fake tree out of the basement, the one I had planned to take to Florida last year until we flew instead of drove. I kept telling him, "No, it's ...Where did you head to this Thanksgiving?
More than likely, the turkey bones from yesterday's dinner are now in a dumpster somewhere. Perhaps, you've made turkey soup already or some sort of casserole for tonight's dinner. Maybe you're pondering jumping into the shopping frenzy.
If you went home for the ...Skiing in Vermont started earlier this year
The weather this year has been cooperating with Vermont--at least so far. I've read that Mount Snow opened last weekend. Other Vermont ski resorts opened this weekend, as well. Apparently, this is the earliest people have been able to hit the slopes in Vermont in almost 10 ...Making Christmas festive while on the road
While the song might say, "There's no place like home for the holidays," being on the road offers the excitement of places new and getting away from it all. Particularly, if staying at home means endless hours of decorating, baking cookies, and trying to make a day ...More than pie comes in pumpkin: Try ice cream for the holidays
Last week my son dropped a pint of ice-cream into the shopping cart when I wasn't looking. I picked it up to return it to the freezer--until I saw it was pumpkin. I caved.
Pumpkin ice-cream is one of the reasons the thought of cold weather and less daylight filled days ...Paypal offers 50$ rebates on NWA flights
If you're flying anywhere in the next few months (say, Thanksgiving or oh, Christmas) and Northwest Airlines is an option, check out the 50$ rebate that Paypal is offering on bookings. You have to book between November 13th and 21st, but the terms and conditions don't ...Veterans Day memorials and the Tomb of the Unknowns
Years ago, when I was visiting my great aunt who lived near Ft. Knox, Kentucky, she took me to the base's officers' club for dinner. She was a major. Here's the thing. She became a major during WWII, and, years later, whenever she passed onto the base, she had the honor of ...Save a couple of bucks and fly on the holiday
Flying around Thanksgiving and Christmas is typically the most stressful time of the year to be in the skies, both because of the volume of people in the airports and the egregious ticket prices. Since demand is so high to travel over the days preceding and following the ...Photo of the Day (10/31/07)
Happy Halloween!! When I looked through our Gadling Flickr Pool for an appropriate post to commemorate today, I came across Sun Toad's shot taken at Tokyo Disneyland in 2005. If this isn't an indication of how cultures travel, I don't know what is. Today at Tokyo ...Forget parties, now it's time for real Halloween.
Halloween weekend has come and gone, and with the parties being over, now is the time for the real spirit of the season to reveal itself; Instead of costume parties, now we're talking about good, old-fashioned frights. Got plans for the real Halloween this year? If not, why ...Monte Cristo: Australia's most haunted house
When I was poking around to find a haunted house tour on You Tube--I don't have the time to actually go to one--I found this one of a house that is spooky enough to give anyone the willies. The music is perfect. That droning organ music that is mixed with rattles and wind ...Thirteen places in the world to creep you out
Kelly's post on haunted hotels reminded me of when I was a kid. There was an abandoned house on my grandparents' street that was too hard to ignore. One Halloween my cousins and I dared each other to run across the front porch and knock on the front door after dark. Imagine ...
